This weeks nostalgic rental look back has a NYC cop taking on a Yakuza boss in Japan in the action film Black Rain (1989)
Continue readingMonth: Jul 2020
Decision Before Dawn (1951) WW2 German POW Spying For The Allies
What could possibly be the motivation to spy on your own country? Captured by the enemy. Resigned to the fact that your country is most certainly losing the war. What would make you decide treason is an option against your homeland? To help give your foe the upper hand. This was a dilemma given to a collection of German prisoners of war during World War Two. To cross back onto your battered boarders to retrieve valuable information for the Allied invasion. An unspeakable betrayal!
Continue readingWhat’s Been Watched This Month – June 2020
Moonrise (1948) Bad Killer Blood Runs Through His Veins
Off I set on another of my travels through film. This time Moonrise from 1948. Didn’t know much about it. The way I like it. Only recently stumbled across it. A film noir it says. I guessed the usual crime filled drama affair? Had to have a love story, you can see that on the movie poster (Haha not the image I used). In I went! All nice and chilled with the opening credits accompanied with a full orchestra bashing out a melody of uplifting, stirring strings……. until then!…
Continue reading